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Classic PM Zoolander. Silver spoon in his mouth,
telling the commoners they shouldn’t be using plastic. Stupid idea. Doesn’t make sense. Can’t happen. It will be announced in 2022 that this can’t be done. Aimed at naive first time teeny bopper voters who think their single vote will save the world but they don’t even know what riding they live in.

…forgot the last ingredient for a PM Zoolander policy. Find a first term MP whose previous job was the rodeo clown at the Letterkenny county fair, give them a cabinet position and put them in charge of the file.

“And on what planet are thin single use plastic bags and cutlery etc recyclable??”

Both are recyclable. Plastic bags, dry cleaning plastic, bubble wrap etc are recyclable almost everywhere. Most plastic cutlery is also recyclable (check the number embossed on it) but many places can’t take them yet because they are too small to sort efficiently with current technology.

The level of disrespect shown the intelligence of the intended audience by this move is disgusting. The timing – post-election- of it despicably shallow and hollow.

One can only think that they have polling showing significant support bleeding to the Green Party (not unlike the millions of Obama voters who voted for trump) and this a grasping at this straw – pun intended.

I don’t think it has a hope of working and may indeed hurt the LPC. (It will be something a lot of MPs will uncomfortably have to defend.

C’mon now, people. Let’s not talk ourselves into opposing or scorning this just because it comes from him. It’s a very serious and growing problem. I find it much easier to get behind this than a lot of “urgent” proposals to save the planet coming out of the climate change industry.

So. JT announces a plastic strategy. Took him 4 years and still not ready – they need to decide which single-use plastics will be included. Note that plastic bottles are NOT included if he follows the EU guidelines, which he says he will.

So basically, a hollow promise that he will do something about plastics – a year or so after re-election. But it is all virtue-signalling because a key component – bottles – is not included.

If he’s going to get rid of single use plastics does that mean no more free needles and condoms? I think those qualify as single use. How about diapers? Feminine hygiene products? Wrappers on food? Will doctors have to use their gloves on multiple patients?